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Trimble County

Lexington, KY–USDA Kentucky Farm Service Agency State Executive Director John W. McCauley encourages everyone to take a moment to appreciate the hard working farmers and ranchers in Kentucky on March 25, National Ag Day. This year’s theme is “Agriculture: 365 Sunrises and 7 Billion Mouths to Feed.”
USDA is proud to stand behind the producers who rise before dawn 365 days a year in order to put food on the table for 7 billion people.

Kentucky Farm Bureau joins the Agriculture Council of America and farming organizations across the country to celebrate National Agriculture Day on Tuesday, March 25. This day has been set aside annually since 1973 to highlight the many ways America’s food system improves the quality of life for everyone.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – St. Patrick’s Day is Monday, March 17, and the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is reminding drivers not to get behind the wheel if they’ve been drinking.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that since 2007, at least 270 people were senselessly killed nationwide in crashes involving drunken drivers during the St. Patrick’s Day holiday. Those fatalities were preventable.

A Trimble County man was arrested Sunday night, March 9, after Troopers found a meth lab in his home, said Trooper Brad Arterburn spokesman for the Kentucky State Police.
A tip led Troopers with Kentucky State Police Post 5 to the home of 27-year-old Nicholas Hanson, who lives at 9 Cassell Lane in Bedford. Troopers were able to locate an active lab as well as ingredients used to manufacture methamphetamine. Troopers also found approximately two grams of finished product.

The members of Trimble County Fiscal Court voted Monday to approve a maintenance contract with Kone Incorporated for the courthouse elevator. The county had been paying $301.17 each quarter for maintenance. The county agreed to a maintenance upgrade at a cost of $355.92 per quarter with additional coverage provided by the maintenance contractor.

“With the years that it’s been there it would probably be wise to move up to that,” Trimble County Judge-Executive Jerry Powell said, “because it’s not cheap when they come.”

The Bedford City Commission voted Monday, Feb. 17, to start sending a sewer bill to the Bedford Fire Department.

Commissioner Darrell Harmon had reported during the government body’s January meeting that the department does not pay for sewer or garbage. Harmon said the Kentucky Public Service Commission advised the city several years ago that everyone, including the Morgan Community Center, should be charged for sewer service.